penatesとは 意味・読み方・使い方

発音

• (英国発音) IPA^(key): /pɪˈnɑːtiːz/, /pɪˈneɪtiːz/

名詞

penates pl (複数形 only)

1. (Roman mythology) The household deities thought to watch over the houses and storerooms of ancient Rome.
   • 1646, Thomas Browne, Pseudodoxia Epidemica, I.3:

     lest the name thereof being discovered unto their enemies, their Penates and Patronal Gods might be called forth by charms and incantations.

2. (figuratively) Synonym of household deities in other contexts.
   • 1831, L[etitia] E[lizabeth] L[andon], chapter XII, in Romance and Reality. […], volume I, London: Henry Colburn and Richard Bentley, […], →OCLC, page 101:

     ...and a china shepherd and shepherdess, clothed in "a green and yellow melancholy," were the penates of the mantel-piece.

派生語

• lares and penates

アナグラム

• nepetas, pesante, septane

Latin

語源

From penus (“food provisions stored inside”) +‎ -ās. Originally an adjective chiefly used in the phrase dī penātēs "gods of the home". Compare penetrālia.

発音

• (Classical) IPA^(key): /peˈnaː.teːs/, [pɛˈnäːt̪eːs̠]
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): /peˈna.tes/, [peˈnäːt̪es]

名詞

penātēs m pl (genitive penātium); third declension

1. Roman guardian deities of the household
2. (metonymically) dwelling, home, hearth
3. the cells of bees

   Synonym: favī

4. a temple

語形変化

Third-declension noun (i-stem), plural only.

派生した語

• English: penates
• French: pénates
• German: Penaten

参照

• penates in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette
• “penates”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• penates in Georges, Karl Ernst; Georges, Heinrich (1913–1918) Ausführliches lateinisch-deutsches Handwörterbuch, volume 2, 8th edition, Hahnsche Buchhandlung